Hey-I'm the actor who got farted at in this weeks Game of Thrones...AMA (if you can be bothered)

Hey reddit my name's Sam Mackay, I was in the opening scene of GOT episode 4 Season 2 (the one with the helmet) No idea if this will be of any interest to anyone as I'm no huge name or anything but hey...if ya pop a question my way I'll do my best to give an answer!
Hope you're enjoying the second series as much as I am!

update: it's 4am here and I'm up for rehearsals for something else at 7.15! Gonna catch some sleep, having far too much fun, I will absolutely return to answer any questions you may have in the morning and in my breaks .Stay awesome Reddit and thanks to those who've already commented!

new update: back from rehearsals and overwhelmed by the amount of questions and comments, sorry for the late replies but I shall crack on and do my best to answer as many as possible thanks for giving a shizbit...you guys are aaaaalright

latest update: Just wanted to offer a healthy portion of thank you to all those who contributed to this AMA,if there are any late comers I'll still do my best to answer any stray questions. I had an excessive amount of fun as well as being warmed to the cockles by much of your kind rhetoric. Hope to report back again at sometime if it's of any interest. Thanks again. Sam

Please describe how you got into character for this. Did you draw on your past experiences by means of method acting? Did you reflect on famous historical figures from the past and how they coped with their gas-based plights? How many takes had to be done before the scene was truly performed to the satisfaction of the director? Was George R.R. Martin on site to give his perspective of how the scene should be done?

Sir Blob
life was hard in the weeks leading to the shoot, in truth I was regretting requesting my dear friend to coax me into surprise subjections of pungent gas from his rancid buttocks at any given time...there were times I wondered if it was all worth it but I'm told practise makes perfect and that seemed like sound advice. I think it's safe to say when I came to set I felt prepared. What I hadn't catered for was the large portions of chili con carne on offer to the actors back at our trailers. It was a dark and nauseating 7 hours shooting a scene alongside that kind of warm wafting stench, but I made it and am stronger for it.
George wasn't there but if he was...I'm pretty sure he'd have said, "wait a minute...I didn't write this?"

Your extraordinary response places you in the annals of acting history on a level equal to or greater than Marlon Brando. I thank you and fully endorse you for the part of Smaug in the upcoming Hobbit movie, not only for the voice but for the physical playing of the character as well.

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To be honest he needed to be easily recognisable for the next shot where he's seen with his guts hanging out. (Hence his helmet being on the floor)
To lie to you it's because they thought I was so badass I deserved a cloak.

Hell yeh it felt awesome. It was my TV debut having spent most of my time in theatre and you can't help but feel the grandeur, especially with a sword at your hip.
I couldn't reveal the payment but the Lannisters are stingier than they give themselves credit for, good thing HBO covered it.

mind you I will add after 7 hours striding through wet mud and horse cack up to your shins that cloak became ridiculously sodden and therefore heavy, at that point you start to feel more like a disgruntled geriatric!

But of course,call me whatever the heck you want we're practically family.
Well in between acting jobs I also actually dance and am writing this from a corner of rehearsal for the Britains got talent finals as we speak (don't worry-not as an act,I'm backing for some of the "performers")

Im pretty tired so if you can start living my life physically for the next hour or so I'd really appreciate it!
Glad you enjoyed the AMA

From our point of view it was one of those jibes between friends poking fun at a figurehead who rumours were abound about not that there was any significant proof yet to back it up. Hearsay suggested they were often with each other and Renly was a bit wet in our eyes so the natural progression from two laddish lowly guards was that they must be "gayers" . Valid question though considering the point in time we were at with the previous episode

I must admit reading the books I felt really conflicted wanting to be anything but a snidy Lannister but damn...you're right I felt dirty in that chest plate...good dirty. Dirty like a nun who just got caught on pornhub by Sister Geraldine....but Geraldine tells her to keep watching

I look at it this way... the Lannister's foot troops seems somewhat human now! Chances are most of them rather be with some tavern whore back in Lannisport than hacking at some wolves, even though he might of hated wolves.

Absolutely, to be frank we were two guards way down the pecking order who were always given the shitty jobs...watching the horses,tending to the long drops etc which is why Rennick frequently pulled such tricks on me. The prick

Unfortunately he wasn't on set when I was there but for the sake of this AMA I'm going to put it out there that I caught him wrestling a bear with his bare hands and let's just say he now owns a lovely new rug

pretty much just Robb in the back of the car back from set. Nice bloke, chilled out, had been sitting waiting to go on set for a good 4 hours. Maisie Williams was apparently about but they seemed to keep the younger actors away until definitely needed. Can't remember for the life of me who but we were told there was a band who were big fans of the show who came on set to watch us while we filmed it but can't remember for the life of me who it was, if I remember I'll say...It was the weekend of the Music awards in Belfast so was busy about!

There were two of them one male one female and after they were done with me I was left alone in my trailer feeling confused,vunerable and robbed of all dignity. It was then that I discovered the tools I need to play Keith Chegwin in his surely impending biopic

I know I was a little gutted with the helmet situation and there was some mixed decisions as to wether to keep it or not between costume and directors but cant complain, was still awesome and hey, it made sense to my character to have it on while it was peeing it down?! (Rennick was sat drenched through like a soggy dog)

I'd seen some of the first series and really enjoyed it and knew most of my friends were massive fans of the show so once I got the part I then sat down with the books to read up until the part we were in so I had a feel for what was going on and the background info as well as watching the full series and loved both. Needless to say I was giddy as heck flying over to film it!

honestly not a clue it was such a fun and surreal experience,we were on set for 7 hours with various complications including keeping the fire under the rain machines etc they shot it lots of times from different angles within that evening and chopped and changed between takes for the final edit. We then had to go in and do some voice dubbing as I believe the rain interfered with the mics a bit.

ah s**t is this really happening?...erm I guess I'd team up with my best mate Noah, sure I could come up with a comedy answer but really and truly who else would I trust to have my back (plus he's mixed race so according to the movies I'd have a better survival rate with him about) weapon wise David Fynn's anus (the other actor in the scene) a USAS (pre-nerf on BF3) and some bad ass one liners.

I guess I should answer one of these seriously, I have an acting agent who receives a break down from casting directors telling him what type of person they are looking for. He then decides who of his clients he wishes to send for that role. He sends them our headshot/picture and CV and they decide if they want to see us or not. Then if they do they arrange a time for an audition and send through the necessary sides/script (in this case the scene I was a part of) . Upon arriving we usually have a short chat before performing the scene with them or another actor/actress and they record it, possibly giving direction to see how you cope with what they throw at you . They then send the video to the director and decide who to recall and so it repeats until they decide that they have who they want and make a formal offer.
In this instance however I did one audition in which I actually played the gassier of the pair and then upon receiving the offer I had been switched to the other part.
Think that pretty much covers it.

Had a wonderful time in N.I, we filmed it the end of last year just before the MTV EMA weekend. Was a real buzz about the place at the time and managed to fit in a good ol Northern Irish knees up with some of the friendliest folk I've encountered. A great band playing traditional tunes to a chorus of perfectly intoxicated pub dwellers. Left with a cheshire smile and spirits higher than Miley Cyrus in Amsterdam. Cracking

Well excuuuuuse me Ser! I'll have you know I was no extra!ha but seroiously the extras are re-used.It would be bit hard to buy into the story if actors with lines kept popping up as different characters from various houses though!

Ha afraid not though that is pretty much exactly the process they will have gone through.... prup "no" ...pwwwwwwwwwwwp..."no" ...sssssss... "absolutely not" "Bffff" "ha, no" ....hhhhhh "jeez someone needs to do some buttock clenches I could barely even hear that one".... BrrrrPah "GOT IT!"